The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-15
EXPRESSIONS OF THE STATE PRESS.


write Compromise" ON their banner in 1883.
Frankfort Banner: The Legislature would do
we'll to enact a high license and local option
temperance law.
Wabash Courier: race that would please Re-
pub]icans-Green Smith running against Colonel
Robertson for Governor of Indiana
Rising Sun Recorder: The State treasury e
reported empty again The usual remedy is sug-
| cested-.o borrow money to pay expenses
| South Bend Tribune: High license in Indiana
| would 10 wer The taxes of every manufacturer,
business man. farmer and workiugman in the
State.
| Winamac Republican: Indiana is Obliged to
borrow money to carry herself over the financial
difficulties now staring the State administration
| in the face.
Terre Haute Evening Mail: There should be
no two opinions as to the proprety of taking the
| control Of politics.
| Clark County Record: AS a matter OF course,
the County Officers State Association will to
it that no bill compromising their interests will
pass the Legislature.
| Greensbure Review: Col Robertson has been
| wrouged, and through him the Republican party
OF Indiana has beer wronged. The rightinR pro-
cess will be applied IN 1885,
North Manchester Journal The election Of
Turpie was accomplished by modifying" the
| original election SO as 10 make the Legislature
| Democratic for that purpose.
Upton Advocates: No other party in the his
| tory of politics could hold together and live
under the load Of infamy that the Democratic
party thrives ard fattens under
/ Lafayette Call: After the revelations of the
| last campaign it were pity to let the present
officers Of the benevolent institutions hold over
They have already held over too long.
Muncie News: When the Democratic members
| OF the State Senate get little further on and
take look at their work from the other end of
| the line, it will not look so handsome.
/
all over the State will rejoice, SO long as the
Seventh district is represented by Democrat,
that it should be Bynum and not Bailey.
Vincennes Commercial: If anybody was de-
| iuded into the belief THAI Green Smith was q
gentleman because he has been comparatively 81.
| lent for two weeks past they are now unde-
ceived.
Lafayette Courier: There is no doubt bat
what Indiana is financially embarrassed, and
| that large sums of money will have to be bor-
rowed with which to tide over and meet current
expenses.
Wabash Plain Dealer: When such methods
succeed in securing seats in the United States
Senate as were employed in the selection of Tur-
pie and Payne it is high time for the people ia
rise in righteous indignation.
Elkhart Review: We believe if an election
could be held tomorrow on the question of high
license it would result in an overwhelming VIC
tory for license that would pay large proper
ton OF the expenses it incurs.
Lgonier Leader: Senator Harrison. although
defeated in the Legislature is elevated in his
party and stands higher today in the estima-
ton Of the majority of the people in Indiana
than any public man In the State.
Richmond Telegram: 1t cannot be honestly
said that Green Smith speaks with any more
dignity, moderation and credit from the floor
than he does from the chair. His aperture for
speech is too large. no matter where he is
Hartford City Times: David Turre's election
to the United States Senate is a reproach to the
State that elected 10 that honorable body suck
men as Governor Morton and General Harrison.
Perhaps General Harrison eft" on the wrong
side.
the Democratic members, the session through,
has been revolutionary, and their purpose is in
harmony with the well-defned policy of that
party to stife the wishes of the people in every
| instance.
Jap Turpin, in Kokomo Gazette Tribune
General Harrison is one of the lost conspicuous
| figures Of his party to-day. II he fails to secure
the Republican nomination for the presidency
he cannot resist the nomination for the vice.
presidency
Logansport journal: Mr. Shroyer is in full
, accord with his party in the belief that the So
called election OF Turpie was rotten with corrup-
ton, saturated with fraud and forgery, vitiated
by usurpasion and revolution, and 10 every re-
, spect criminal and VOID
Steuben Republican: If things are to 20 on
as they going in some quarters then n is a
very serious question whether trades-unions and
labor societies are not, all in ALL a far greater
curse than blessing to those whom, ostensibly,
they are organized TO help
. Charlottesville Journal: It will doubtless be
found, however. when the voters Of Indiana ger
> the next whsok at the Democratic party in q
general election, that If Judge Turpie is no
chicken he is something that will come home to
! roost heavily on that party.